skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sympathize with you and feel as Thoreau said that "men have become the tools of their tools." I care deeply about the natural environment, and find most modern technology dehumanizing. I enjoy simple living and spend most of my time on a small sailboat with no electricity or motor. I personally study "primitive" skills like gathering food, and making boats and buildings with simple hand tools. I feel an essential part of being a healthy human is having a deep connection to, and knowledge about your local environment and watershed.

However, there is more than a small chance of the future I am talking about being possible where we can make virtually anything directly from carbon in the air, with little to no impacts. I am an academic scientist, and am focused on solving the specific problems that will make what I am talking about possible- and basically everything I mentioned is already working fairly well... and is already cheaper, safer, and more practical then petroleum chemistry and mining if you factor in externalities. However, the only real path I see to getting people to use it is to make it better still, so it is fundamentally cheaper and superior, without even factoring in the externalities and nasty impacts of our current way of doing things.

Degrowth is quite frankly not going to happen voluntarily, it's a cultural and political non-starter, and also leaves us with an inability to fix the massive damage to the planet we've already caused, and leaves us dying from diseases that we are very close to understanding how to prevent. We've decimated and poisoned our natural environment such that simple living is no longer even possible in most places- where I live the fish and other wildlife are almost all gone, and the few left are too toxic to eat. Let's instead go all in on understanding science so that we can in principle do almost anything we can imagine with little resources or impacts, and then also have much higher standards for what we actually choose to do with the knowledge.

Edit: I looked at your blog and agree with a lot of what you are saying, but also disagree with a lot, but see you are a deep thinker that cares a lot about this stuff. I think it would be interesting to talk to you more.
"One weird trick...?"

I practically healed my reflux by drastically reducing lactose and alcohol at night (I used to drink half a glass of wine at night) and replacing coffee for tea after lunch. May not work for people other than me, of course.
This ship slowed down noticeably before destroying the cables so officials were quick to react. Also, not too long time ago another sabotage ship broke stuff as well so this was probably expected to happen again. Really does not have anything to do with Nord Stream 2 since it was different water areas and methods. But that whataboutism surely gives clue where your message comes from.
I think the dress code is stupid. But if he were against it, he should not have attended at all. To attend and make a scene is just about publicity. It touches the superficial thread of rebellion without being respectable or commendable.
> tool for a hefty subscription price

There's quite a few solutions to choose with per-request pricing. Only extremely heavy users should be on the subscription these days.

You can invest in running things yourself too.
What do you mean a well written email could see your domain terminated? An email to who?
We need dramatic social and tech changes:is societal collapse inevitable?
>Ah, so it's an inherently asymmetrical force, with the advantage to Ukraine to perform the attack?

yes. Before cheap modern electronics, the costs of attacking vs. defending missiles didn't have such orders of magnitude difference. Drones, ie. cheap electronics, changed the game.

>It can't just be defended against by pairing (or even 10-to-1-swarming) identical V1-class drones from Russia to be used as interceptors?

To intercept you still need to be faster (transsonic and especially supersonic doesn't come cheap/simple), to have radars, a large one on the ground for detection, and seeker on the interceptor (that is cost and complexity) or to guide interceptors using the ground radar (that would mean much less simultaneously attacked targets by your interceptors, less distance and other issues like with intercepting low-flying targets, etc.)
> In fact, due to the immense damage technology has caused, the burden of proof should be on the technologists to reliably demonstrate that new technology is even worth it beyond propping up our broken, global capitalistic system.

A fair argument as far as it goes, but unlike engineering and some other activities, mathematics isn't about creating more technology. Although mathematics can be applied to that purpose, that's not its essence.

If electronics and computers didn't exist, if industrial society didn't exist, mathematics would still exist, and perhaps it wouldn't be confused so often with its applications.

Mathematics isn't responsible for how we choose to apply it.
They fined/censored him. He accepted the consequence and said "ok, I'll change as soon as I'm back at my hotel." They then hit him with a second infraction, for still being out of dress code.

I'm not a chess dress code rules lawyer, but I think the principle here is that the judge was power tripping and hit him twice for a single dress code violation.
Thank you very much.

Here is my attempt at fixing that problem, from 4 years ago. Not perfect but good enough:

https://github.com/AtmanActive/PerlPlayWavDevice
If that works for you - I am glad, however, this approach won't work across different browsers and OSes.
Very likely paid in advance
Probably more jobs available for language VHDL (influenced by Ada) than Ada itself. Of course as a hardware description language you're on the hardware side of things. Also, worth noting it's more popular in Europe (Verilog seems to have won over in the US).
This is because many businesses would put this up as a decoration. Probably private people too. I wouldn't be surprised if it was #6 because there isn't much choice in it.
Things you never wanted to know about Golang interfaces
Well, it suggests they are not all dumb. Also having been to India I'd say they are fairly normal in inherent IQ, but quite a lot of people are illiterate and would have a job confronted with an IQ test.
How do you know it's not GERD? I had what you described. Took 2 months of careful eating and Omeprazole to get rid of... Doctor did a throat/nose endoscopy but couldn't see anything, so he diagnosed based on symptoms alone.
That may be the most buried lead I've read in a decade.

I still have no idea what the point is. I gave up.

Anyone care to summarize?
You're so deep into this nonsense I don't think anything I could possibly say to you would change your mind, so I'll try something different.

Have you thought about stepping back from all of this for a few days and notice that you are wasting your time with these arguments? It doesn't matter how fast you can calculate a dot product or evaluate an activation function if the weights in question do not change.

NNs as of right now are the equivalent of a brain scan. You can simulate how that brain scan would answer a question, but the moment you close the Q and A session, you will have to start from scratch. Making higher resolution brain scans may help you get more precise answers to more questions, but it will never change the questions that it can answer after you have made the brain scan.
> We do something on the IoT side with our local first air quality monitors. So no forced platform lock in or subscriptions.

Took a quick look at your site (from your profile). Are you charging a one-time fee for the monitor, then? How often do people need new ones? Is there data reporting that can be sent to your servers or elsewhere? How do you avoid running into a situation where you are losing money supporting a 10 year old air monitor?

> Wish you all the best with your business model.

Thanks! We've definitely found it to be a differentiator for certain types of customers.

> didn't we once call these desktop applications

I struggle with the name. Self-hostable, downloadable, BYOS (bring your own server). Desktop doesn't feel right, at least for our product, because in prod, it is almost always running on a remote server.
Sure, but it's humans that do the deduction. So "surprising" and "interesting" still matters. Especially when you are treating deduction as a parallel to a piece of prose that one might reasonably hope to be surprising and interesting not just repeated rephrasing of main thesis.
I suspect the confusion is the concept of white noise. Some people can focus on some form media and a work/chore equally at the same such that neither is background noise. I enjoy playing music while I drive or doing dishes only because I enjoy the music. The work effort is accomplished in the same time with the same quality either way, but some people need the background noise to help focus on what would otherwise be a slow and painful effort marked by continuous interruption and slipping precision.

That is the distinction of ADHD. Self reflection, the bit about offense, is important because for the person without attention disruption there isn’t a performance difference to reflect upon, but for other people there is an issue of concern.
Oh, he's always been flamboyant.

It's just that when the company was just one gpu maker in a crowed, tiny and not very profitable market, no-one paid much attention.

Now they are making the shovels and pickaxes for the current gold rush, and correspondingly are competing for the spot of the largest company in the world, a lot more people are paying attention to his antics.
The rule of three should obviously not be applied to well known data structures and algorithms ...
Seems like publicity is the point. Getting headlines is a lot more likely to change something then just skipping the tournament.
That's fine, and unrelated to the article in any way.

LLMs are way more useful than a child in many ways, some of which are discussed in the article. They don't need to be as intelligent as a child for anything proposed in the article.
Philosophy survived the rise of engineering. Informal mathematics will survive the rise of actually getting the answer right just the same.
In comparing neural networks to brains it seems like you are implying a relation between the size/complexity of a thinking machine and the reasonability of its thinking. This gives us nothing, because it disregards the fundamental difference that a neural network is a purely mathematical thing, while a brain belongs to an embodied, conscious human being.

For your implication to be plausible, you either need to deny that consciousnes plays a role in reasonability of thinking (making you a physicalist reductionist) or you need to posit that a neural network can have consciousness (some sort of mystical functionalism).

As both of these alternatives imply some heavy metaphysical assumptions and are completely unbased, I'd advise to avoid thinking of neural networks as an analogue of brains with regards to thinking and reasonability. Don't expect they will make more sense with more size. It is and will continue to be mere statistics.
I live in an apartment building on the side that faces the woods. I obviously have to park on the other side, and my fob doesn't reach. I don't care about remote start anyways, but there are absolutely situations where fobs can't reach but cell service can.
Well, I certainly agree with slowing things down. Time to discuss would be much better than nothing. As I tell many, I am glad I was born when I was, and not now. I cherish the time I had before anyone knew of the internet. Even though I am using it now, mostly to spread my ideas, I would gladly trade it for a world where it didn't exist.
Wow, great to see The Fall is on Mubi. That's one I had to pirate as it wasn't available anywhere.
I don’t know how they do it but xcancel works pretty good

https://xcancel.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381790
https://xcancel.com/ianwcrosby/status/1872724231999381790
"I can't share a tech talk with my siblings because there's trans people in it" -- you definitely sound like part of the problem, esp. when so much of infosec research is done by trans people
I wouldn't describe myself as a "heavy pornography consumer", but I certainly get bored by the gratuitous sex scenes in many shows and movies these days, thinking, "I can get this and much more any time I want, so can we stop with it and move the plot and/or character development along please?"
I loved how you minimized functionality in your project! It's inspiring.

Over the holidays, I built a simple habit tracker that lets you track any event's start and end time.

In the process, I upgraded my personal homepage to Next.js 15, added Payload CMS and NextUI, and experimented with React Server Components and Actions.

Check it out: https://mojica.de/tracker

You can create new event types by entering activities in the top text field. Events are automatically started for new types.

There are a few minor bugs to fix in the new year:

- Event cards don't display correctly on iOS.

- Using no email during registration doesn't work (someone registered without an email, and the field is unique).
I haven't heard that at all. As I understand it, the music is written to go with certain scenes, but it complements the action and adds a lot of emotional beats. I can't think of an example where it's simply describing what's going on on-screen.

The music is a huge part of Arcane though, and complements the emotional content.

e.g. The Line (Twenty-One Pilots) was written after Tyler Joseph witnessed the passing of his grandmother and is written from her viewpoint - incredibly powerful and poignant, but also fits in wonderfully with what is happening with Victor (Arcane character).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Rj2gQAyPA
Most streaming services take a similar cut of the revenue.

Spotify pays out 70% of revenue they receive to owners of the music, BandCamp 75%, SoundCloud 80%. Could be slightly better, but it's not outrageous.

The real problems for artists are:

a) they are not the owners of the music, their record label takes most of it, and the rest is split between the artists, songwriters, producers, etc.

b) bad deals with (but good for) the customers - ~10/month for unlimited music too good value
There used to be a TV channel back in the cable days for this, so this sort of thing is hardly new. It's excellent ambiance for your Christmas party.
For the best developer experience, you need to write custom tools.
If a change in other people's ability to do mathematics affects your level of enjoyment in doing mathematics, you don't really enjoy mathematics. You enjoy feeling smarter than other people, of belonging to an exclusive club.

Preserving people's access to this kind of enjoyment is not something that should carry any weight in my opinion.
A decent fraction of this website is people enthusiastically promoting tools they love using. Good tech wins supporters without paying for them.
Ehhh, we have people there with their 2yo, just don't be alone with a small kid (bring the other parent).
The estimated time to fix the electric cable is over 6 months. Underwater fibers have been quicker to repair as was with another recent case. Electricity exports from Finland to Estonia went down pretty significantly due to this. Estonia was to stop importing electricity from Russia within 1-2 months so this is Russia being Russia as we (Finns, Estonians et al.) know here living next to it.

EDIT: Hamuko basically said the same thing earlier, did not notice
The rise of the AI crawler
>It’s about demand isn’t it?

Yes. There used to be a saying the most expensive Fab ( or factory ) isn't the most advance Fab, but an empty Fab.

You cant built without first ensuring you can fill it, you cant fill it without first ensuring you can deliver. And Intel has failed to deliver twice with their custom foundry. Both times with Nokia and Ericsson. How the two fall for it twice is completely beyond me, but then Intel are known to have very good sales teams.

Intel will need another Apple moment that has huge demand, little margin, but willing to pay up front. On the assumption that Intel is even price competitive. The Apple modem may be it. But given the current situation with Intel as they want to lower Capital spending I am not even sure if betting on Intel is a risk Apple is willing to make. Comparing to a stable consistent relationship with TSMC.
Generalisation is definitely a good approach, but it’s not the only one. Another is “conceptualisation” or reducing repetition: if you find that large numbers of functions are taking the same three parameters, especially if they’re using them in similar ways, that’s a good sign there’s a concept you can introduce that makes those observations explicit.
I doubt a business would subscribe to Netflix for that, unless they already have a subscription for some other reason.
We need a poet who sings about having a "dangerous, dirty city" to call home, and the yearning of the heart is to escape to somewhere better and never returning.
> Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger!

> Oh help me! Oh, help me! My life is in danger!

> The venomous monster is drawing upon me

> And I can’t escape him.

> How near is his bite,

> With teeth sharp and white!

> Oh gods above!

> Why can’t you hear my mortal cry?

> Destroy the beast or I will die!

> Or surely, I will die!

The opening lines to The Magic Flute (which continues in a similarly expository tone for the duration). Seems like there have always been scripts which were easy to understand while also staring at your phone, though that doesn't stop the ushers at English National Opera getting narky at you if you try!
I wonder if the extra energy is the kinetic energy (the water rushes into the cistern to create the vortex, but then is still when it's raised).
On the other hand, this is the most impactful way to change antiquated rules.
Another feature that I find shockingly absent from
most web-based chat providers is autocomplete, I.e copilot-like suggestions to complete what your typing. Typing long text into chat boxes quickly becomes tedious and having context-based autocomplete helps a lot — you can experience this within AI-IDEs like zed or cursor etc — in fact I often resort to using those just for this feature.
I believe this, feels like streaming platforms shows are made to be watched while you browse your phone. Even if I like a show I often feel like it could've been a 2h movie instead of 8h show and nothing would be lost.

There is still so much good stuff (especially films) being created still, but nowdays if it is Produced-by-streaming-corp, I'll just assume its going to have a inflated length to keep people from unsubscribing.

The main feeling you'll get out of a Streaming show is being sedated
It's a hodgepodge. These paragraphs near the end might be the point. I don't blame you for not getting this far.

"Here, streaming platforms have achieved a strange paradox. Never has a group of studios gained so much control over the production, distribution, exhibition, and reception of movies by making movies no one cares about or remembers. Having not only failed to discover a new generation of auteurs, the streamers have also ensured that their filmmakers are little more than precarious content creators, ineligible to share the profits of any hit. It’s a shift that has induced a profound sense of confusion.

“What are these movies?” the Hollywood producer asked me. “Are they successful movies? Are they not? They have famous people in them. They get put out by major studios. And yet because we don’t have any reliable numbers from the streamers, we actually don’t know how many people have watched them. So what are they? If no one knows about them, if no one saw them, are they just something that people who are in them can talk about in meetings to get other jobs? Are we all just trying to keep the ball rolling so we’re just getting paid and having jobs, but no one’s really watching any of this stuff? When does the bubble burst? No one has any fucking clue.”

"Netflix has created a pyramid scheme of attention, with no end in sight. And yet if the streamer admitted how little impact its movies make, it would undermine its long-running pitch to audiences, Hollywood talent, and their business representatives that the company is a grand star-making enterprise that produces great cinema with commercial appeal.
Wi-Fi chips always had "user" program area, in theory anyone could call any of chip vendor, and with NDA, $$$ an 5 years of back and forth, could have met the exact same goal as what you can do today with ESP32, even in 2010. I've seen a Twitter ticker display made from a mPCI Wi-Fi card in a maker meeting back then. The guy demoing it was a company engineer with access to internal docs, wasn't giving it to anyone else.

The genius of Espressif was that they didn't issue C&D letters and DMCA takedowns when people started modifying firmware for their product using garden variety GCC without even asking and then ported hobbyist garbage called Arduino Core. They did initially panic a bit, but soon their management realized it's a golden ticket to something, and they bet the whole company on it. And they got the return they deserve.

There aren't a lot of aspects that are technically so advanced about ESP8266/ESP32. It's just the ones made by the hungriest and most aspiring Wi-Fi chip manufacturer.
Fair comment. I'm in the middle of reading the Isaacson Musk bio so maybe the contrast between the two made me think of Jensen as shy and retiring.
This rule is new, by the way. There used to be no dress code at all, and it's become increasingly strict in the last few years.
This is the inevitable consequence of tuning the content of productions to a subscription based business model once you have achieved market saturation. The purpose of the videos on Netflix is not to entertain or inform you, but to do the bare minimum to stop you from switching to something else.

This is beginning to take hold in parts of the games industry too, where it's far more important to keep the player "engaged" (in the absolute loosest possible term) than give them time to go off and do something else.

I believe a lot of 80s and 90s nostalgia stems from the fact media creators were incentivized to give the consumer what they actually valued in a relatively short time, whereas once given the opportunity the producers will drag it out as long as possible eventually milking everyone dry. You may have less in the way of explicit commercial breaks today, but the whole thing has become one big commercial break for something which the service is constantly promising to deliver and never does.
Do you know the brand, out of interest? But also, isn't a glass cutting board really bad for knives? The reason cutting boards are usually made from wood is that wood is slightly soft and will do less damage to the metal edge of the knife.